The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-12-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

pure whltc ponrls.
Mushrooms that weigh seycn pounds
grow In the Tyrol.
TnERE is growing demand for Ameri-
can apples In England
PREsIDrSr CLEyELASD drinIs wine at
dinner, very sparingly @
GEoRoiN critic on homoly bride: "IIcr
fuco would wean calf.p
TrE postmaster az wintcrport, Nc, is
appropriately gnRmod Snow. -. 81.
PREslnESr CrryErANni Is to talso lessons
In horsebat K riding this winter
SIXTY III sand oreugc trees are on
their way from Japaa TO California.
WAsnYoToS has ono hundred and forty
miles Of streets with shade trees on both
sidcs.
TnERE arc indications OF renewal OF
the agitation IN fayoe Of government tel
cgraph
ThEur are millions OF Wild gcoso in Da.
ko,a, this season nttracbd by Tic namoc-
Gus lakes
TIM outlook for the l'lorida orange crop,
both as 10 supply and demand, il said 10
be very good.
TuEnI has been complete reconciliation
betwecn tho Empress Eugeaic aud Prince
Victor Napoleon.
MBs ciryELAND is greatly liked by her
house-seryanis, because OF her kindly and
gracious manner
IL Ia said to cost fifty dollars TO place u
carcass Of Chicago dressed beef 10 tho
markets of London.
BKFonu the close Of the year every eoun.
" In knnsas win hnve completed line u
railroad within its limiiS.
FouH littlo girls ncted as pall.bcnrors NJ
the burial Of one Of thcir yduthful play
mates in Fond du Inc, Wis
1t IS said that tho President sits down
three times q day 10 ono Of tue best served
privaietab hi Washington.
A NEw YogE jury hBs decidcd that the
keeper ora buckoi-shop Il tho keeper ot a
gambling-huusc within the legal dcini.
tlou.
GRrAT BniIAiY, the largest Empire in
the world comprises s,SjLc55 square niles,
more than a sixlhpart Of the surface Of the
globe.
HEAvf raiuN have 30 advanced tho
ripening Of the coffee berry 10 Mexico
that the crop win be gathered earlier than
usual
SAnrLtS, Kan, contains among its In
habitants "Doc'' Biod cit, who was born
In block house In 1890, where Cincinnati
is now.
IsntrSsE numbers Of fruit trees arc be.
Ing planted IN Oregon aud Washington
Territory, They aro chiefly prunea and
Bartlett pears.
Usscnururops sons-in-law arc unoom,
Portable creatures for aman To have about,
fact Of which President Grcvy is bcoom.
ing sorely convinced
TnE superintendent Of tho Philadelphia
Mint expresses surprise ~ the steady de-
mand for one cent pieces which began
about eight months ago.
a nrStwAY couple seated on the back Of
small mule rode up 20 tile conrt house Mt
Milton, Fiji, the other day, aud were mar
rieh by tho county judge.
A COLONEL woman at Jacksonville, Fla,
has baby which Is half black aud half
white. One side OF It's face Is Ulhck as
coal aud tho other sido white.
By the marriage Of Senator Ilawlcy The
number OF widoners in theupper house of
Congress ia reduced 20 three, They arc
Senators Gibson, Voorhees, and Beck
DuRiNo the last sevcu months SiI50o0,.
600 OF foreign capital have como into The
United States There is no other country
in tho world OF which like thing can be
said.
TnE total number of miles Travelled in
tho whole United states mail service
during the pas, year was go, l59,o ,oG5, which
was au increase of 5,0l672s miles over last
year.
TnrnE were recently taken from one OF
the mounds near the Ohio river two silver
crosses and thirty silver ehoc buckles, the
latter bcaring the French crown and date
OF i7yo.
TnR former residents OF Ohio now living
IN Topeka. Kan, have organ scd n society
and adopted for motto, "rhc sun of OHIO
never shono on the face Of mn ugly
woman
JAcQurs WsnLER, the engravor who
made nearly nh the plates from which tho
bonds and money OF the Confederate States
worc printed, is dead at his home IN Cam
den, N. j.
PErnoLruM is being found in increasing
quantities all over tho islands OF tho
Dutch East lndias, particularly In Java.
Rich wells have also been discovered in
Eastern Java.
plain that they are unable to protect them-
solves against the hordcs Of deer and ante
lopo which ravage their orchards and de-
stroy their grain fields.
HusKING corn by means of n threshins
machine is the new agricultural wrinkle
and II is getting to be very popular in some
parts Of the west The corn is husked ana
shcllcd nj the same time,
TRE tanning Of Kangaroo skins Is an I'M
portant industry at Newark, n j., aboat
0.c00 hides being received there from Aus
tralia every week Much of tho leather is
shipped TO London and Paris.
pAprn bedclothes arc made ntn factory
In New Jersey They are doubled sheets
OF MANILA paper, strengthened with twine
and valuable by reason OF tho peculiar
properties Of paper as non-conductor oi
heat.
EpwARp WrLMoT BLYDES is perhaps the
ablest negro IN the world. He can read
the Koran in Arabic, the Bible IN Hebrew,
Homer In Greek, Virgil in Latin, Shaks-
peare in English and Dante in Italian
Blydonis a complete Kuow,nothing and
his cry is, '.Africa for the Africans"
TnraE is good prospe;t It now that there
viii he nm enthusiastic centennial celebfa
ton in Now York City in 1881 of the In
auguration OF George Washington as first
President OF the United Statos-
NJ. BLANcnEr, in his recent work on the
Panama Canal, states that the canal has
already cost ovor 10000 lives, aud u Is be
nevod, by careful observers, that hisestl'
mate Is no exaggoraticn OF the truih.
Tun presence Of mind Of a West Chester